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Sunday, 31 July 2016

2016
NATO Summit: “Achtung, Russia!”

Joseph
Goebbels, Hitler's Minister for Propaganda is turning in his grave.

This is on another level!

On 8-9 July 2016. Western and Eastern
European leaders gathered to recite the same lines over and over
again, justifying anti-Russian circumstances that they themselves
facilitated.

You
won't hear about the CIA funded Ukrainian coup, nor the subjugation
of modern Ukraine to the IMF and the World Bank.

You won't
hear about Biden's son sitting on the board of Ukraine's largest gas
producing company Burisma, and other examples of financial
colonization.
You won't hear about the referendum in Crimea that
voluntarily sought to join Russia - with no sign of protest to this
day.

You won't see an explanation of what the Minsk agreement is
and who is party to it - nor will you see a breakdown of which side
in Eastern Ukraine is attacking and which is defending.

What
is being asked for, in effect, to fully satisfy NATO, is nothing less
than for Russia to simply stop existing.

Oil
Prices Tumble 16% in July: Is the Next Stop $35 per Barrel

The
recovery in world oil prices since the February low of $27 per barrel
has died an unceremonious death due to flagging demand and massive
market oversupply.

Oil
prices careened downward to the lowest level since April 6
sounding alarms for commodities traders and countries whose
economies are dependent on energy revenues with analysts
predicting that the worst is still yet to come.

On
Friday, Brent crude broke past the $42 a barrel resistance level
tracing into bear market territory while its US counterpart West
Texas Intermediate was down 1.1% to $40.60 a barrel.

Oil
prices have collapsed a concerning 16% for the month of July
on a whole marking the worst monthly decline for the year
so far. Prior to this month, energy prices had been on a
general upward trend after falling to a 13-year low of $27
a barrel in February.

The
story behind the violent crash in oil prices has been the
same throughout the month with US energy reserves holding
strong despite a slowdown in production in the face
of flagging economic demand that saw the American economy grow
only 1% in the last quarter and with manufacturing data
signaling a recession may be on the way.

In
addition to flagging demand, supply continues to overwhelm
the market as Saudi Arabia forges forward on its baton
death march

towards oversaturating the world’s oil market.
When oil prices careened off a cliff in February, the
Saudi Kingdom vowed to increase energy output by 1 million
barrels of oil per day (mbd) immediately with a similar
jump in production planned for July.

In
total, would oil output remained fairly constant near 100
million barrels of oil per day outstripping demand by roughly
2% causing energy stockpiles to swell across the globe.

Energy
demand continues to look bleak in the near and
mid-term future with China’s latest GDP figures sparking
concern despite jumping above a 6% annual growth rate
for the first time in years as analysts noted that
over 60% of China’s economic output was traced directly
to economic stimulus.

A
downward spiral in oil prices could end in a sharp bounce
back for energy markets with analysts fearing that oil-rich
states like Libya and Venezuela, whose budgets are based heavily
on commodities prices and which lack sufficient access to credit
markets, could descend into political chaos due to continued
economic pressures caused by the collapse in oil prices –
this would cause production to falter suddenly pulling millions
of barrels of oil per day off the market pushing
prices upwards.

Other
traders express concern that areas that have been impacted by recent
supply disruptions, particularly Canadian oil fields savaged by the
Fort McMurray fire and Nigeria whose output remains unpredictable due
to political unrest, may soon see a return in output
worsening global oversupply.

Leading
US investment bank Goldman Sachs issued a warning on Thursday
that oil prices will remain below $50 per barrel until at least
mid-2017 and that risks remain "skewed to the downside,"
reported Reuters.

Market
Watch also
cautioned that oil prices face downward pressure in relation
to a strengthening US dollar in the wake of Britain’s
historic vote to exit the European Union which they anticipate
will stifle any possibility of prices rebounding in the
near-term.

Europe’s
Banking Crisis Leaves

EU Scrambling to Avoid Repeat of

2008 Crash

Top
financial institutions in Europe have hardly been more vulnerable to
an economic tremor, a situation worsened by the collapse of the
German credit market as Berlin suddenly stopped issuing new debt.

Europe’s
top financial institutions are teetering on the edge of collapse
as access to high quality debt products have created a
liquidity freeze rendering many institutions near insolvent
according to the European Union stress test that assesses each
bank’s ability to withstand the shock of a global
economic slowdown.

The
Bank of England rushed in to reassure global markets that
UK lenders remain in a strong position to weather global
financial shocks, but the rest of Europe may be in for
more than its fair share of turbulence.

The
European Banking Authority (EBA), an EU institution, coordinated the
test of 51 lenders from across the bloc expressed concern
in the wake of the test noting that most of Europe’s
banks are not properly situated to withstand a major market
event.

Coming
in with one of the worst stress test results was perhaps
the most systematically important financial institution in Europe,
Deutsche Bank. The financial institution saw a 98% plunge in its
annual profits sparking concern that it may be the Lehman Brothers
of 2016 creating a domino effect infecting the assets of the
global financial system.

However,
as bad as the news has been for Deutsche Bank, the
prize for the most vulnerable financial institution in Europe
went to Italian lender Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena (BMPS),
the world’s oldest bank. BMPS is reportedly loaded with toxic
loans and mortgages and in the event of an economic
downturn the institution’s capital ratio would dip into negative
territory – or bankruptcy.

Although
Europe’s banks appear shaky enough that a light summer breeze could
knock them over, economic analysts wonder whether macroeconomic
headwinds will persist turning the danger into a tragedy.

The
shock that crushes Europe’s financial sector may not be the start
of worldwide recession – although Britain’s post-Brexit
economic output looks dreary, China is surviving on a flood
of stimulus spending, and the United States GDP growth was an
uninspiring 1% in the last quarter – but instead the
sudden drying up of German debt markets which means
overleveraged financial institutions cannot access capital to cover
bad bets.

The
European Central Bank largely created the dry up in the credit
markets through its Quantitative Easing stimulus program fueled
by the purchase of German government bonds to infuse
new liquidity into the financial markets, but Germany has
halted borrowing and the ECB is blocked by its own rules
from purchasing other bonds that are below benchmark
interest rates, reports Die Welt.

America’s
transition to fascism

According
to Hillary Clinton's foreign policy advisor, Jeremy Bash, if Clinton
is elected she will order a "re-set" of US policy toward
Syria to emphasize the "murderous" nature of the Assad
regime. As the Telegraph reports, Hillary Clinton will breathe new
life into the "Assad must go" camp. She will likely launch
a full-scale US invasion of Syria.

Said
Bash:

A
Clinton administration will not shrink from making clear to the world
exactly what the Assad regime is. It is a murderous regime that
violates human rights; that has violated international law; used
chemical weapons against his own people; has killed hundreds of
thousands of people, including tens of thousands of children.

Of
course claims that Assad used chemical weapons on his own people is
the long since disproven neocon cri de guerre to push Obama into an
attack on the Syrian government. The 2013 gas attack near Ghouta was
likely a provocation by the rebels hoping to draw the US directly
into their fight.

This
"he gassed his own people" line is the Syrian version of
Saddam's "WMDs," a lie repeated ad infinitum to make the
case for war.

As
far as violating international law, the entire two year US
intervention in Syria is in clear violation of international law. The
US has no legal right to bomb Syria.

Clinton's
advisor informs us that as president his boss would involve the US in
everyone else's affairs: "Mrs Clinton believes that problems
around the world can more easily be solved when America is involved
and in each of those problems or crisis," he told the Telegraph

If
Hillary becomes president and gets her way with a Syria "re-set"
the prime beneficiary will be radical Islamists. There literally is
no secular, moderate opposition to the Assad government.

How
do we know the jihadists will come out on top? Her last great
intervention, the "liberation" of Libya should be
precedent. Gaddafi was no angel, but until shortly before he was
overthrown he was a Washington ally, a secular counterpart to
creeping Islamization of the region. After the 2011 "liberation"
strongly backed by Hillary, Libya has turned into a hellhole of
competing radical Islamist militias and warlords. ISIS and al-Qaeda
were unheard of in Libya before Hillary got her hands on it. Now it
is rotten with them.

The
military situation in Syria has turned against the U.S.-supported
opposition over the past year, due mainly to Russian intervention.
Now, the failed coup in Turkey and subsequent crackdown there stand
to reduce the capabilities of a key U.S. ally. Without some
rebalancing now in favor of the opposition to Syrian dictator Bashar
al-Assad, the prospects for a satisfactory negotiated political
transition are dim.

In
a dissenting internal memo last month, 51 State Department diplomats
advocated attacks on Syrian government forces to end their aggression
against the country’s civilian population, alter the military
balance and bring about a negotiated political solution. President
Obama has focused instead on fighting terrorism in Syria, but U.S.
targets are limited to Sunni extremists such as the Islamic State and
al-Qaeda affiliates.

There
is also a Shiite terrorist organization in Syria: Lebanon-based
Hezbollah. It should not be immune.

Hezbollah
was founded to resist the Israeli occupation of Lebanon in the early
1980s and takes credit for the eventual Israeli withdrawal from that
country. Tightly allied with and supported by Iran, it has become the
dominant political force among Shiites in Lebanon, where it not only
participates in national politics but also runs its own security
forces and provides social services to Shiite populations.

Covertly
since 2012, and overtly since 2013, Hezbollah has deployed forces
inside Syria, where its thousands of fighters are aligned with
Assad’s army and mainly Shiite and Alawite militias against mainly
Sunni forces that Assad regards as terrorists. The Iranian
Revolutionary Guard Corps pays Hezbollah’s bills and provides its
command-and-control operations. Hezbollah forces have been
particularly effective along the border with Lebanon, which provides
it with strategic depth and supply lines.

Hezbollah
is a major factor in the military balance in Syria. Along with the
Russian air intervention begun last September and the Iranian
Revolutionary Guard, Hezbollah’s fighters have enabled Assad to
make progress against his opponents, especially those associated with
the Free Syrian Army fighters backed by the United States. That
progress has hardened Assad’s negotiating stance and blocked the
U.N. search for a political solution. Assad is winning, and he sees
no reason to accept a transition away from his rule.

A
shift in the military balance is essential to ending the war, which
is what Washington says it wants. But Obama has steadfastly refused
to go to war against the Syrian, Iranian or Russian government. Even
if he wants to, it is doubtful he has authorization from Congress to
do so.

But
Hezbollah is a non-state actor. It is also a U.S.-designated
terrorist group that has murdered Americans, among many others. Most
Republicans and Democrats would applaud an attack on Hezbollah, even
if some in both parties would bemoan a move that suggested widening
commitments overseas.

Washington
could inform Tehran, Moscow and Beirut that Hezbollah should withdraw
from Syria by a certain date or the United States would target any of
its troops attacking non-extremist opposition forces in and around
Aleppo and elsewhere. If Hezbollah failed to withdraw, the United
States would then need to be ready to attack as soon as the ultimatum
expired.

Hezbollah’s
withdrawal or U.S. targeting of Hezbollah would send a strong but
still limited message to the Syrian opposition and its allies in
Turkey and the Persian Gulf: We are prepared to attack Shiite as well
as Sunni terrorists, but it’s up to you to take advantage of the
opportunity and come to the negotiating table ready to reach a
serious political settlement. It would also send a strong but
likewise limited message to Iran and Russia: We will not continue to
tolerate your intervention in Syria without responding. The time for
a political settlement is now.

How
would the players in Syria react? Hezbollah would likely try to
strike at accessible U.S. assets or citizens in neighboring
countries, most likely in Lebanon or Iraq. It might also launch
rockets into Israel. The Islamic State, which uses Hezbollah’s
involvement in Syria as a recruiting tool, would be undermined.
Russia and Iran could in theory up the ante, escalating their
involvement in Syria, but in practice they both appear to be close to
the limit of lives and treasure they are willing or able to expend
there. Assad would be outraged and promise revenge, but the Syrian
government is even more clearly at the limit of its capabilities.

Meanwhile,
the non-extremist Syrian opposition would applaud and press hard
against the territory where Hezbollah is deployed. Gulf states would
likewise welcome the U.S. action and redouble their efforts to
support the opposition. Israel knows all too well how to react to
Hezbollah attacks in order to reestablish deterrence. Turkey might
complain that the United States was not also acting against the
U.S.-allied Kurdish fighters whom Ankara regards as terrorists, but
the Turks would still benefit from any consequent military progress
against Assad by non-Kurdish forces.

In
short, U.S. targeting of Hezbollah would mostly please and embolden
Washington’s friends and discomfit its antagonists. It would also
reassert U.S. commitment to fighting terrorism of all sorts, renew
Washington’s commitment to holding Hezbollah accountable, hasten an
end to the Syrian civil war and make a political settlement more
likely. That is not a bad balance of risks and benefits

And at home ....This is chilling. It reminds me, if anything, of the 1930's nazi Nuremberg rallies.

FULL: General John Allen (ret. USMC) - Democratic National Convention

The fraud at the DNC was open - bringing in paid people to fill the empty seats for the speeches.Meanwhile the media refuses to show the crowds at the Donald Trump rallies

Bernie Delagate Speaks Out Against Fraud at DNC *Seat Fillers*

The electoral fraud is rampant. they'll simply steal the election in full view.

Blame game: No evidence Russia trying to influence US election

The
Democratic Party is once again in hot water with Bernie Sanders
supporters in an outrage over a depiction of the Jewish progressive
as a rat in the sole piece of Bernie memorabilia at the DNC
Convention harkening back to Nazi anti-Semitic propaganda.

"This
is somebody’s sick sense of humor. It’s a cruel joke. They
obviously want to make him look like some kind of ogre," said
Karen Bernal, a Bernie Sanders delegate from California.

The
sole piece of Bernie Sanders memorabilia for sale at the Democratic
National Convention presents the insurgent progressive candidate’s
face distorted to look like a rat harkening back to anti-Semitic
imagery employed during the reign of Nazi Germany

The
Democratic Party No Longer Exists. And an Orchestrated War with
Russia is Contemplated

The
Democratic Party that once was concerned with workers’ rights, the
elderly, civil rights, and the constitutional protections of America
liberty no longer exists. As the just completed Democratic
presidential primaries and the Democratic presidential convention
have clearly demonstrated, the United States now has two Republican
parties in service to the One Percent.

The
organized Democrats–the Democratic National Committee–have shown
themselves to be even more venal and corrupt than the Republicans.
Leaked emails document that the Democratic National Committee
conspired with the Hillary campaign in order to steal the nomination
from Bernie Sanders. It is clear that Sanders was the choice of
Democratic Party voters for president, but the nomination was stolen
from him by vote fraud and dirty tricks.

The
DNC and the media whores have tried to discredit the incriminating
emails by alleging that the leaked emails resulted from a plot by
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin in behalf of “Putin’s
American agent,” Donald Trump. “A vote for Trump is a vote for
Putin,” as the presstitute scum put it.

This
diversionary tactic has not worked. Not even Americans are stupid
enough to fall for it.

Consequently,
the corrupt “leader” of the DNC had to resign and was unable to
deliver her speech at the nominating convention from fear of being
booed off the stage.

Sanders’
supporters have abandoned Hillary and the fake “Democratic Party.”
Probably most of them will vote for the Green Party candidate.

The
organized Republicans–the Republican National Committee–and the
zionist neoconservatives wanted to block Donald Trump from the
nomination just as the DNC blocked Sanders, but could not. The
neoconservatives are organizing for Hillary as she is their warmonger
and Trump says he is not, but as the Presidential contest is really a
contest between the two Republican parties about which gets to be the
whore for the One Percent, the RNC, impressed with Hillary’s lack
of voter support, seems to be sticking with Trump. Better to be a
well-paid whore than to be out in the cold.

In
the coming presidential election, the outcome will probably be
determined by whether the powerful oligarchic interest groups decide
whether Trump is an actual threat or whether they can cosy up to him
and rope him in by appointing his government.

Trump’s
disability is that no matter how able an individual is, that person
cannot simultaneously make themselves a multi-billionaire and be
knowledgeable of economic and foreign policy issues. The bald fact is
that Trump, if he becomes president, does not know whom to appoint in
order to have the support from his government to effect the changes
for which his supporters hope he stands.

When
a person becomes President, that person doesn’t suddenly become an
encyclopedia with full knowledge. The President is dependent on the
information flows from his government. If those information flows
support the interests of Wall Street, the corrupt “banks too big to
fail,” the military-security complex, the Israel Lobby,
agribusiness, and the extractive industries (energy, mining, timber),
the President’s decisions will support these material interests.

Donald
Trump is the American people’s choice, because he is opposed to the
offshoring of American jobs–a corporate practice that has enriched
the One Percent at the expense of the American middle class.

Donald
Trump is the American people’s choice, because he opposes the
fabricated, gratuitous conflict with Russia. Even Americans
understand that taking war to a major nuclear power will not end
well.

Donald
Trump is the American people’s choice because he realizes that
NATO–an organization whose purpose disappeared 25 years ago when
the Soviet Union collapsed as a result of the coup against Gorbachev
by extreme elements of the Soviet Communist Party–now serves as a
vehicle and cover for Washington’s aggressions, which are war
crimes under the international statutes that Washington created.
Washington’s wars benefit some of the One Percent at the expense of
both the 99 Percent and millions of innocent peoples in many
countries.

What
will happen now is that the presstitutes will demonize Donald Trump
even more than they have demonized Vladimir Putin. The scum
presstitutes will do everything that they can possibly do to make a
vote for Trump into an act of treason against America.

Now
that the presstitutes have learned that they can tell the most
blatant lies–Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction,
Iranian nukes, Assad’s use of chemical weapons, Russian
invasions–without being held accountable, they know that they can
lie about Trump.

And
they will. To the hilt.

But
the presstitutes have lost credibility. A person has to be an
imbecile to believe a word that they say.

“Progressives”
will wander off the track. They will be turned off by Trump’s stand
on immigration, which is where the American people stand.
“Progressives” will be worried about whether the ‘fascist”
Trump will persecute transgender and homosexual people or revoke the
right of women to abort the unborn. To “progressives” this will
seem all important as Washington and its NATO vassals hurl the world
into nuclear war.

Neither
can any intelligence be expected from the defunct American left-wing.
The American left-wing supports the official story of 9/11, the
excuse for the last 15 years of illegal wars and the American Police
State. To find the American left-wing totally allied with the
official explanation of what is in reality a false flag event,
committed in order that the neoconservatives would have their new
Pearl Harbor in order to invade the Middle East, is demonstrable
proof that the American left-wing is irrelevant.

The
American left interprets 9/11 and subsequent false flag events as
oppressed peoples striking back at their oppressors. The emotional
satisfaction of this takes the impotent American left-wing out not
only of action but of relevance in commentary. The American left-wing
has become an asset of the enemy–the neoconservatives who control
policy in Washington.

So,
where do we stand? The answer is that we are closer to nuclear
annihilation than ever before. I know of what I speak. I held the
highest security clearances. I was a member of a secret committee
that enabled President Reagan to end the Cold War.

The
President of Russia, Vladimir Putin is doing everything he can
possibly do to avoid the nuclear war that the crazed American
neoconservatives are bringing to humanity. For his efforts in behalf
of planet Earth he is demonized 24 hours a day, seven days a week,
year after year. For simply stating facts, I am described by the
presstitutes as “an apologist for Putin.”

The
endless lies about Russia have convinced the Russian media that
Washington is mobilizing its NATO vassals for an attack on Russia.

If
you aren’t scared after absorbing this Russian news broadcast, you
are stupid beyond belief. The message is clear: the West has declared
war on Russia but is trying to keep Russia off guard by denying it.

The
video of the Russian news broadcast also shows the dismissive way the
Russian media was treated at the recent NATO conference in Poland.
The non-entity representatives of the non-entity countries of Latvia,
which has been ruthlessly looted by the West, Estonia, Lithuania, and
Poland, and the Ukraine representative either refuse to speak to the
Russian media or use the interview to repeat Washington’s false
accusations against Russia. These imbeciles insulting Russia are
representatives of countries that Russia could destroy in a few
minutes. If these idiots think Washington could save them, they are
as stupid as the Polish colonels who thought that the British
guarantee in March 1939 meant anything and could save Poland from the
rash action of sticking Poland’s fingers in Hitler’s eye. This
Polish stupidity provoked by the stupid British set off World War II
with the British and French declaration of war against Germany, thus
consigning Poland to Soviet rule for a half century. Some guarantee!
The imbecile Chamberlain who wanted peace started WWII with Britain’s
worthless “guarantee.”

Does
it make you feel safe that the arrogant warmongering imbeciles in
Washington have convinced a nuclear power the equal of the United
States that America is going to attack?

Moreover,
Russia is a nuclear power allied with another nuclear power, China,
which has had enough of Washington’s imbecilic provocations. Are
you willing for “your” government to lead your future into
nuclear war with two nuclear powers?

Here
we Americans are going into a presidential election and the
overpowering fact of our time–that Washington is threatening
humanity with nuclear war–is not a subject for discussion! What is
the matter with us Americans? Are we stupid beyond all belief? We sit
stupidly, thinking that issues of no importance are the most
important issues of our time while “our” insane government
provokes nuclear war. Have any people in history failed their
obligation to this extent? If so, who?

My
case rests. There is no countervailing evidence against the fact that
unadulterated evil rules the West and is driving the world to
extinction. Western democracy is a total failure. Democracy could not
prevent the crazed warmonger Hillary from presidential nomination
despite the opposition of the American people.

How
long can Russia, and China, wait before they conclude that they have
to pre-empt the coming attack from Washington? Does anyone, even
stupid Americans, think that once Russia and China are convinced that
they are targets for attack that they will just sit there and await
the attack?

Do
peoples as guilty of dereliction of duty as Western peoples are have
any right to survive?